Cisco's stated reason for returning a contact to the transferring agent is to stop contacts getting stuck when no other agents are available, which makes it a small-team setting rather than a routing preference.

fact · verified 2026-09-15

You can enable this setting to prevent contacts from getting stuck when no other agents are available.
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Webex Contact Center
Subsystem
Queues and teams
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-15
Status
fact
Confidence
0.90
Verified
2026-09-15

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WarmTransfer. (2026, September 15). Webex Contact Center queues teams and routing strategies: claim wxcc-rt-same-agent-toggle-is-for-thin-staffing. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/wxcc-rt-same-agent-toggle-is-for-thin-staffing

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-wxcc-rt-same-agent-toggle-is-for-thin-staffing,
  title  = {Webex Contact Center queues teams and routing strategies: claim wxcc-rt-same-agent-toggle-is-for-thin-staffing},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/wxcc-rt-same-agent-toggle-is-for-thin-staffing},
  note   = {Claim wxcc-rt-same-agent-toggle-is-for-thin-staffing, verified 2026-09-15}
}

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